The Heart Sutra is less than 300 words (in any language) and I have been studying it in detail for eight years now, though I first met it...

The central issue of Buddhism is dukkha , variously translated as suffering, dissatisfaction, misery, stress, etc. Dukkha and its anton...

In researching karma and rebirth I came across an interesting article by well known scholar of religion, Paul J. Griffiths. It dates fr...

When we talk about suffering in Buddhism we often make a distinction between various 'types' of suffering. In the Arrow Sutta* the B...

In the first of two essays last week ( why do we have a sense of self? ) I explored how neuroscience might explain the emergence of self-co...